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greatest orat0fS-Deing SeBona only 10
Cicero-and as a historian he has never
been surpassed. He was likewise q
mathematician, jurist and architect As
sia:ed in an anclet History, he, in s years
fought battles with 100000 of men; con-
quered 500 cities. 800 nations and cap
tured 100000 prisoners, besides killing
in battle / eco 600 enemies. He invaded
Great Britain b. c. IS, but did not succeed
in conquering the Caledoniazs, Wild
race inhabiting that part of Scotland
which lay between the Friths of Forth
and Clyde. His rival was Pompey, but
he finally conquered him in the battle OF
Pharsalia, in Greece. He was at last
made perpetual director of Rome Not
satisfied with this he wished to become
King. But this desire cost him his life.
He was stabbed in the Senate by Brutus
and other conspiratoIs, on the Jdes OF
March, B. c. His death aecured in the
56lh year of his age. 1t was owing to
aesar's recklessness while in Egypt
making ioye to Cleopatra, the infamous
though beautiful Egyptian queen, that
the world sustained an irreparable loss
in the Obstruction Of the Alexandrian Lii
brary-the largest and most magnificent
collection Of ancient times. 1t number
ed 100000 volums, 100000 of which were
DESTROYED by the heedlessness of Cesar,
about the year 81 B. c., and the rest by
Omar, the Saracei.ic general, A. D. GAO.
This library was chiefly collected by
Ptolemy l., one of the Egyptian Kings,
but Macedonian by birth, and previously
general under Alexander the Great.
The Old Testament was translated into
Greek on the banks of the Nile and be-
came part of this collection. OF mod
ern collections, it will not be inappro.
pirate here to state that the public IL
braries of Paris contains altogether 2,22S,
900 booRs and manuscripts. The National
Library, the leading one of all, now pos
sesses 100000 printe6 volumes, $4,000
manuscripts, 100000 engravings maps,
and l00,0 900 medals and coins.
RICHARD l., or RICHARD CGUR DE Lion
the LioR-hearted) as he is called in his
tory, was born in 1857 He was made
King of England in 1889. In 1870 he
raised large force and joined the cru
SADIE with Philip of France; the main OBJ
lect being to rescGe Holy Sepulchre from
The hands of the Saracens Saladin, the
reiterated sultan of Egypt and Syria, had
command of the SaraceniG hosts. He
was great warrior-the Hannibal OF
Napoleon of his day and the Christians
Iad their hands full to maintain tneit
own in his dominious They succeeded,
however, after two years siege in TAX
ing Acre, and subsequently took Casarea
and Jatfs. Richard advanced to within
short distance OF Jerusalem, but never
entered the city in person. On his re-
turn home he was captured by tie way.
and made prisoner by Leopold, Duke of
Austria, but finally ransomed by his SUBJ
jects and again crowned. He died in
France, from an arrow wound in 1l99.--
WARWICK, "the king maker" of Engl: nd,
was the last of the barons. lie was born
in 142S, and created earl Of Warwick
about the time that he came of age, or in
1449. The most Important events of his
life were those connected with wars OF
the Roses, or the houses of York and
Lancaster; during which he made and
unmade Kings almost at his will. TSee
Bulwer's great work, entitle, "The last OF
the Barons."l His personal retainers
numbered over 80, ZOO men, all of whom
he could well provide for at his tpriyate
though capacious castle ofWarwiak. lie
was powerful, either as friend or foe. He
was killed at the battle of Bernet in l47I.
FRIEDRICH THE GRDAT was the third King
of Prussia. He was born in 17I2 and
commenced his reign in 1740. He was
the greatest general of his age; still for
all that, in his first great battle with the
Austrians he left his troops, and fled on
horseback, for dear life, distance OF
thirty miles thinking all the while that
he was pursued, when the truth was that
an aid-decamp was endeavoring to over
take him with the intelligence that his
army had defeated that of the Austrians.
That was his first and last feat of the h ind
Noltaire, his intimate friend, lampooned
him numerically for it. The seven years
war commenced in l756. Prussia was at
tackled by five great powers, to-wit: the
Austrians, French, Russians, Swedes and
Saxons, but under the genership of Fred
erick, she came out victorious. He was
fond OF literary pursuits, and was author
Of many valuable works. In religious
matters he was no intidel. He never had
IN heir to his throne. His nephew, Fred
trick William III succeeded him. lie
lied in 1856. BoyArARTE.
very schoOlboy knows his histo,y-wss
born in 1869 at Ajaccio. Corsica, an island
Ia the Mediterranean belonging to the
French. 1t lies off the coast of Genoa,
md is about l20 miles long, north and
south, and 80 miles broad, east and west.
In youth AMI early manhood he was stu
iious and retiring in his habits and dis
position. Meteor like he flashed upon
France and the world, all at once. liz
INST great act was The planting of cannon
a all the streets IF Paris round the ass
t.,nbly, aud subduI < 10000 OF the Natl
onai Guard with grape shot Soon af'er
ais he Was married to josephine, and a
ew days thereafter took command fthe
army of Italy. That was in 1856. In
eighteen months he defeated Eve armies.
de next became master Of Egypt. In
1873 he was made First Consul In 1900
ne crossed the Alps with his army and
gained the battle of Marengo. In 1902
he was proclaimed Consul for life. In
1904 he became Emperor. In 1907 he
defeated the combined Russian and Aus
iran armies. i.i 1908 he defeated the
Prussians at Jena, with loss to the lat.
ter of 100000 men. In 1909 he divorced
and married Maria Louisa of
Austria, by whome he had one child
son, who lived to be twenty one yerrs of
age, and who finally died in Austria In
1872 he invaded Russia with an army of
100000 men the greatest bulk OF whom
never lived to see France again. In 1914
he abdicated the throne of France and
retreated to the Island Of Elba. He Ie-
turned and fought the battle of Water
loo in 1915. Hc was defeated and ban
lshed to st. Helena, where he died and
was buried in 1921. His remains were
in lS4l brought to Paris and deposited
under the Dome of the Iavalids.